Okay, so playing the second global edition of 1940, and Japan has run into a prickly rules situation in China. Essentially what’s going on is the Japan player wishes to assault a British territory with nothing but air units. The British territory which is being attacked had air units defending, but they were all wiped out by the attacking Japanese. This is the part where we run into trouble.
What do you do at this point? Essentially now there are just Japanese planes and bombers flying unhindered above the British troops. Do all the British die? Do the Japanese do one round of attacks against the land units and then fly back to their respective teritories?
Long story short:
1. Can an attack group made only of air units attack another territory?
2. If so, how is combat for that resolved? Do unguarded land units get automatically wiped out? Or do aircraft conduct one round of “strafing” and then leave for friendly territories?
Any help would be greatly appreciated - the rules seem to make no mention of this issue so it’s a huge deal whether the Japanese planes just wipe out an entire army or not.